The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-01-15

osc.i!ating between the slums and stage,
acltYed marriage with one of the most
distinguished scientists in the city of Wash
lngton.
Two years ago last Fall lady might be
seen early every morning dashing like mad
around the cuncourse back of the White
House, and after wild ride that might
have made Fred Archers hair stand on
end, disappeared as suddenly as she came
and the question was, who is she? The late
President Arthur used to stand at his
window and watch her and he was great
admirer TO her Wild and daring horseman-
ship. This is female No from kitchen
toia palace, from brass ring and pinch
beck iewelry to $7OO,0OO worth of the rarest
jcwelsin the world.
LILLIAN Smith, the child-thief, is our latest
sensation and one that brings us face to
face with the unpleasant tact that here in
New York, where we send missionaries to
the Congo. aud to China and the Fegee,
theying is taught as fine art. and that
there are men and women IN this Christian
land who can sit down and coolly train
little children to life of crime whose end
is misery and death. We have prodigies,
plenty of them, children precocious in al
most every walk Of life, but never before
have we been called upon to chronicle
case OF moral deprayity like that of Lillian
Smith, the child-thief. She stole apparently
because she liked to do it, and took the
usual precaution of olderfemalo thieves Of
destroying the pockct-books and hiding the
proceeds of her plunder in her stockings.
lt.is to be hoped that some means may be
discovered TO save her from a life of misery
and shame; but years after, her case will
be considered one of the phenomena of the
criminal calendar of New York.
The opening year gave us a most unfriend-
ly greeting, January 1st being one of the
most unpleasant days that we have had
this winter; part of the day a driving sleet
drove pedestrians from The streets which
the fall of snow on New Years Eve had
made sea of slush. Callers were not as
numerous as of yore, ,and those who ventured
out from sense of duty fortified them
selves from the fury of the storm in a man
ner not sanctioned by constitutional
prohibitionist Towards night the streets
were filled with men who had evidently
been testing the excise law, and the dis d.
tinguished list of drunk and disorderly
benefited the city treasury several hundred
dollars.
1t is rumored that those interested in
maintaining tie German Opera are making
savage attacks on the American Opera
which is the especial pride of New York.
For the development of American talent
some hundreds of thousands of dollars have
been invested, and that by parties who did
it for pleasure not profit, and who meyer
expected TO see their money again. Mrs.
Thuibcr, the chief patreness of the under
taking, has worked like beaver since its
first inception, for success. Theodore
Thomas one of the foremost musicians in
the United States, has staked his reputation
on it, but it looks as if there was pre-con-
cert among the critics, for everp mishap is
heralded form Dan to BethshebB, and every
rumorof failure magniticda a thousand fold.
can only say it has not been q failure in
New York or Brooklyn the performances
have been most excellent and have given
the greatest satisfaction.
We are doing some tall political figuring
here for the coming senatorial election, and
1t is not an easy matter to tell who has got
the inside track. 1t looks very Mortonish
now, but no man can tell what a day may
bring forth. Warner Miller is still n very
lively ghost, as some folks may discover
before the ides of Macrh. We can only
watch results, and may the best man win
is the sincere wish of,
BROADBRIM.